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Polio

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Summary

Pulitzer Prize, History, 2006This comprehensive and gripping narrative covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease. Author David M. Oshinsky, a multiple New York Times Notable Book winner and University of Texas professor, is a leading American political and cultural historian.

©2005 David M. Oshinsky (P)2007 Recorded Books

Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
Author: David M. Oshinsky
Category: History, Americas
Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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